Debt Relief Industry

A tipster (send in your tips here) alerted me to the fact that the State of Wisconsin recently filed suit against Legal Debt Cure and CCDN. The CCDN name should be familiar to site readers from activity a couple of years ago. Click here for CCDN articles. According to the suit filed, Legal Debt Cure had four officers/managers: Coleen Lock, ... Read More »

A tipster (send in your tips here) just clued me in to a suit filed on June 20, 2012 against Lloyd Eugene Ward. It’s a paternity suit filed by the Office of the Attorney General. According to the suit the mother is Cheryl and the child was both in 1998 and lives with the mother. The complaint filed calls for ... Read More »

The Federal Trade Commission today released an FTC-commissioned study indicating that when marketers use the phrase “up to” in claims about their products, many consumers are likely to believe that they will achieve the maximum “up to” results. The study describes what a test group of consumers thought about ads for replacement home windows that purportedly would provide “up to ... Read More »

Thanks to a tipster (send in your tips here) I was alerted to a recent action filed against Thomas Macey and Jeffrey Aleman by the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission. You can find the full filing below. But to summarize, it appears that the charges are that Macey and Aleman, through Legal Helpers Debt Resolution, breached their of fiduciary ... Read More »

The Credit Repair Group, allegedly located at 12802 Valley View Street, Suite 4, Garden Grove, California 92845. was recently named in a lawsuit that alleges they were making robocalls to at least one consumer and repeatedly calling his cell phone. The suit states: “Within the last year, CRG contacted Plaintiff using an automated telephone dialer system (hereafter “Robocalls”). CRG placed ... Read More »

Debt Relief Considerations If you have a spouse or a partner, it is very important to review each of your situations separately, to ensure that you both require the proposed solution. This is true for any debt relief related situation. Meaning debt settlement, credit counseling, bankruptcy, whatever. At Debt Relief A La Carte, I see this all too often. When ... Read More »

Ed Charry of Hess Kennedy fame has moved on to a number of new enterprises. One is allegedly called Fidelity Land Trust that the Palm Beach Post reported on here. According to that story about how real estate owners are trying to create a crafty solution to alter their financial obligations tied to their residences the story says: “Within the ... Read More »

Yesterday I published an email that was purportedly sent out by Lloyd Ward from Lloyd Ward and Associates that warned people about Lloyd Regner and stated Regner was allegedly doing all sorts of illegal stuff and stealing clients from Ward. In response to that email from Ward, Regner allegedly sent out the following email to his clients that got the ... Read More »

The following email was forwarded to me from a reader. It was alleged to be new information regarding the processing of accounts for Lloyd Wad related debt settlement and debt relief services. What is interesting to note is that if you go to the new domain, lloydwardservices.com, used in the notice it refers you back to LloydWard.com, the corporate site ... Read More »

This is a story that I’ve been working on for a few weeks. I’ve been asking people and groups for feedback and information to write this but what I’ve run into, is a wall. I have received some feedback from groups and people that don’t wish to be publicly identified to protect themselves but what I have learned has been ... Read More »

The operators of an allegedly deceptive mortgage modification business will pay more than $750,000 in ill-gotten gains to settle Federal Trade Commission charges. The settlements also permanently ban the 11 defendants from selling any mortgage assistance relief products. The FTC’s case against the four operators of the Debt Advocacy Center and another group of seven defendants that allegedly provided “forensic ... Read More »

The Connecticut Department of Banking has just updated they page with new recently actions against debt relief companies. This crop includes United Processing Center, 1st American Debt Solutions, Legal Settlement Solutions, and The Consumer Law Group. United Processing Center WHEREAS, on April 27, 2012, the Notice was sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to United Processing’s agent (Certified Mail ... Read More »

A tipster (send in your tips here) has just sent me an interesting document on a company, National Employee Benefits Group. I wrote about National Employee Benefits Group and it’s managers and/or owners before in Debt Relief Companies of Tim Gibbons and Jennifer Yoffe Not What They Seem. In the comments to that article, Tim Gibbons went ballistic and claimed ... Read More »

Part 2. Debt Settlement Fees Unlike most industries, the fees charged in the debt settlement industry, have a direct effect on the services they’re selling. I’m sure you have heard the old adage, “you pay for what you get”. Personally, I’m a firm believer in that philosophy. I’m more of quality of over quantity guy, myself. However, it is the ... Read More »

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